OpenEuphoria

Re: wxEuphoria: Debian and wxeu.so

• Posted by Ryan W. Johnson <ryanj at fluidae.com> Oct 13, 2006
• 542 views

Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> I got this message from someone trying to run dmak. (again)
> 
> [quote]
> 
> I have Debian Linux, I downloaded wxeu.so-9.tar.gz  and installed wxeu.so in
> my /usr/lib and ran dmak and I got the following message:
> 
> The wxEuphoria Library "wxeu.so" could not be opened
> Press any key to exit.
> 
> The permissions are read by all...
> 
> [/quote]
> 
> wxeu.so is in the right place. It is not a permissions problem.
> 
> Suggestion for wxEuphoria:
> Would it be possible to put more information in the error message? I mean
> instead
> of only "could not be opened" could it tell them what to do about it. Maybe
> a list of possible reasons why it could not be opened. Maybe if they are
> running
> Debian do this, if they are running Ubuntu do that, etc.


I had the same problem, on Fedora Core 5 (could not be opened) when i tried to
run the bench_draw.exw demo and some other programs. I tried the latest wxeu.so,
and it starts to load, but then i get the error:

   /home/ryanj/euphoria/include/wxEuphoria.e:1028 
   A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement

which is the line:

wxPRINT_POSTSCRIPT = peek4s( define_c_var( wxWin,
   "wxPRINT_POSTSCRIPT" )),

So, if i comment out that line, it gets stuck at the next statement:

   /home/ryanj/euphoria/include/wxEuphoria.e:1031
   A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement

Which is:

wxPRINT_WINDOWS = peek4s( define_c_var( wxWin, "wxPRINT_WINDOWS"
   )),

If i comment out that line too, it makes it as far as wxMain(), but still
crashes:

   /home/ryanj/euphoria/include/cplusplus.e:12 in procedure call_func()
   A machine-level exception occurred during execution of this statement

... called from /home/ryanj/euphoria/include/cplusplus.e:38 in function
   call_member()

... called from /home/ryanj/euphoria/include/wxEuphoria.e:8750 in procedure
   wxMain()

   ... called from ./bench_draw.exw:168

--> See ex.err

I also noticed it flash something just before crashing:

Gtk-WARNING **: libgdk_pixbuf.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
   file or directory

I don't know what's going on there...any ideas?

~Ryan W. Johnson

Fluid Application Environment
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